Clearly, Frodo is straight, Eowyn is gay, and Rosie swings both ways.

Hee! Well, Rosie is a desktop; she stays at home and waits for everyone. Estel was the first laptop, he's been traveling the longest, but is still doing well. Frodo is the next laptop, he was young, and traveled the most, but is dying prematurely. Eowyn is the new laptop. She hasn't seen Estel much, but he's got a lot of information that she wants, so she's trying to find a way for them to be in the same place at the same time.

Anyway, thanks for the weather station information. It was very, very helpful. I think I'm either going to go for this LaCrosse, which is simple and has the basics and is way on sale, or this one, which isn't a top brand, but has wind speed and direction, which I think would be helpful. The only thing there is, I think it would be helpful in siting the house, but until I build the house, there isn't any "indoors" to put the indoor monitor, you know, in. So I might be better served by buying a cheaper one now, and getting the fancy schmancy one a couple of years down the road when we're in the house, and I'm wanting to work landscaping for microclimate, and that sort of thing.

Dad's recs - WeatherInstruments.com, WeatherShack.com and Davis Instruments.com...Davis has the best overall, but they can get pricey ...

Now *I* am tempted to look at one as well. Drat.

Trivial but baffling web-image-printing thing that I've been banging my head over for almost 40 minutes now:

I'm trying to either save or print a copy of the image on this page. (It's a dress I'm selling on eBay, but the pictures I have of it look like ass because it's one of those dresses that drapes gorgeously on the human form but looks like ass hanging from a hanger. And I have no pictures of my pre-pregnancy self wearing it, so my only "buy this fabulous thing!" enticement right now is the ass-on-a-hanger pictures.)

The image is protected -- I can't give the computer a simple print command, as it just prints everything on the page but the image; if I right-click save the image the resulting document is a 1 x 1 pixel .gif; if I save the entire page it still prints everything else but blunks the image out. Both Hec and I have used up our small bags of tricks and ended up with big fat nothings. Is there a workaround/shortcut/sneaky back-door thefty method for capturing or printing the image we haven't thought of?

JZ, here's a direct link to the image: [link]

(For future reference, you can usually find the path to an image by looking in the "view source" window.)

What about taking a screen shot while you've got the page open?

After much wrestling to make it show the dress in black instead of red, the screencap worked. Thanks, Jess and amych!

What's the rough cost to buy 2GB of memory to upgrade a Mac Mini? I could research it, but I'm lazy. I'm trying to figure out what I'd need to spend if I took the (Mini-) Plunge.

I paid $254 from Other World Computing for 2GB of ram for my MacBook. This was on Nov. 1. Dunno if the Mini uses the same ram as the MacBook....

Can the Mac OS X Finder connect to an FTP server?

tommyrot - Can the Mac OS X Finder connect to an FTP server?

Yup! In the finder, keystroke Apple(command)+K You will get a little dialog box. Type in the ftp:// site and click Connect. Some "candy caning" will ensue, then viola, the site will be a finder window on your desktop. as well as a star globe in a box icon on your desktop to double click to open should you accidently close the window.

If you go back to the Apple+K again, you will notice on the right side a "+". With the FTP site in the address bar, when you click that, it will save it, so you can easily access it later.

Jon B. - What's the rough cost to buy 2GB of memory to upgrade a Mac Mini?

Jon, I've never cracked a Mini open, but I hear it's a bit of a pain. If you take the plunge, I'd say it's worth the money to have the RAM upgrade pre-installed.